ART 135 SC: Typography & Book Arts
Working in collaboration, students create a limited-edition, letterpress-printed artist’s book under the Scripps College Press imprint. Through local field trips, library visits and archival research on the fruit trees and plantings on Scripps College campus, regional environmental changes and conservation, students develop original texts, generate imagery, hand set metal and wooden type, hand print on […]
ART 134 SC: Between Analog and Digital Printmaking
The digital print is considered something of a hybrid in the print and photo world. Crossing platforms between the etching studio and the digital art lab, students will create works that integrate both methodologies. Systems including etching, solar printing, monoprinting, digital transfer and analog and digital printing will be explored. Instructor: N. Macko [Prereq: Art […]
ARHI 188 SC: Representing the Metropolis
Concentrating on the visual arts and incorporating film and literature, this seminar examines selected 20th century representations of such cities as Vienna, Paris, London, Moscow, Berlin, New York, and Los Angeles. We will explore the cultural and political configuration of the metropolis as modern, cosmopolitan, and urban. Instructor: J. Koss [Prereq: one upper-division art history […]
ARHI 187 SC: Old New Media
Beginning with the birth of photography in the 1830s, attending to telegraphy, telephony, radio, and television, and ending with video, this seminar explores the history of the fascination, fear, and peculiar associations that have accompanied new technological developments in Europe and the United States. Prerequisite: one previous art history course or permission of instructor. Instructor: Koss, Juliet. [Art […]
ARHI 186K SC: Seminar in Modern Art
The seminar examines in depth one theme or set of themes in 19th- and 20th-century art and related fields. Topic changes each year. Instructor: J. Koss [Open to juniors and seniors. Prereq: one upper-division art history course. Art History]
ARHI 185 SC: History of Photography
Explores evolution of the photographic image in documentary work, portraiture, aesthetic expression, journalism, and advertising from its inception to the present time. Instructor: Staff [Media History]